Klarinet Archive - Posting 000392.txt from 1997/02

From: David H Eby <davide@-----.com>
Subj: Onan
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:31:29 -0500

Nichelle writes:

> If nothing else, Lisa K. Canjura-Clayton's signature file got a few people
> to blow the dust off of their dictionaries. And is what bass clarinetists do
> in private really all that different than what violinists do in public?

Now, if they'd blow the dust off their Bibles they would realize that Onan was
NOT masturbating. He was practicing a method of birth control called "coitus
interruptus". Read Genesis 38:8-10. I checked it in six different versions
and they had differing levels of clarity, but this seems the most likely thing
that is being described. (Look in http://www.gospelcom.net/bible)

David Eby